MATTERS IN THE AIR’
See Notes of this meeting: 1st October 2014
Dedicated meeting of the 2015 Election Forum. Please do not attend if you have failed to register – space is a problem.
PUTNEY DEBATES are looming. Visit http://thenewputneydebates.wordpress.com/programme/ for the many opportunities to further DEVOLUTION WITHIN CONFEDERATION. This series offers many opportunites TO DEVELOP AND COMMUNICATE OUR MODELS OF THE POLITICAL ECONOMY – SEE 24TH SEPT FOR SOME OF THE AGENCIES WITH WHICH DIALOGUE IS OPEN
1- 2015 CONSTITUTIONALISTS CHARTER – composite drafting out of dialogue – Ray Sheath
2- THE NEW MODEL CHARTER – roots in land, money, right livelihood – Clive Menzies
3. REIMAGINE/ RESET/ CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM
4. RENAISSANCE BRITAIN – Trevor Griffiths
Dig among these arrivals this week for any relating to your concerns
- THE EMPEROR
So the Emperor had no clothes.
And we laughed.
As we all walk around clothed
as anyone but ourselves.
[for those who don’t get the Emperor reference]
2. Daily Pickings recently focused on controlled consciousness – http://freecriticalthinking.org/daily-pickings/1116-conditioned-consciousness – which trains us to consume and condone abuse and violence against others. Apple produces stylish technology to seduce us not only to buy its products but to share our private data with them and the intelligence services – http://freecriticalthinking.org/daily-pickings/1116-conditioned-consciousness – in our desire to be fashionable and smart, we end up like domesticated animals to be farmed and controlled, supporting tax avoidance, sweat shops and child labour. Alex highlighted this brief critique of Apple’s business and advertising practices by Russell Brand. Apple Watch? Do Apple Know What Time It Is? – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g_hrUbyUnY&feature=youtu.be – Russell Brand (8 minute video) Buying Apple products is to accept control. Far better to use free software products wherever possible – http://freecriticalthinking.org/daily-pickings/514-free-software. Do you really need a watch to tell you to how to treat your body?
3. Mother Pelican, Volume 10, Number 10, October 2014 ARTICLES
• Editorial Essay: Common Ground for Solidarity and Sustainability – http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv10n10page1.html – and Spousal Meaning of the Human Body: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv10n10page1.html
• The Economy of Communion Model: A Spirituality-Based View of Global Sustainability and its Application to Management Education – http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv10n10page2.html – by Katherine J. Lopez, Zaida L. Martinez, and Linda B. Specht
• Three Limits to Growth, by Herman Daly – http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv10n10page3.html
• Social and Solidarity Economy: A Pathway to Socially Sustainable Development?, by Peter Utting – http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv10n10page4.html
• Is Global Collapse Imminent? An Updated Comparison of The Limits to Growth with Historical Data, by Graham Turner – http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv10n10page5.html
• A Great Transition? Where We Stand, by Paul Raskin – http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv10n10page6.html
• China’s energy transition: effects on global climate and sustainable development, by Ross Garnaut – http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv10n10page7.html
• We Are Not Not Evolved to Respond to Climate Change, by Jennifer Jacquet – http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv10n10page8.html
• Making a Living on a Living Planet, by Joe Uehlein – http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv10n10page9.html
SUPPLEMENTS Advances in Sustainable Development (news, pubs, tools, data) – http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv10n10supp1.html
Directory of Sustainable Development Resources (1000+ links) – http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv10n10supp2.html
• Strategies for Solidarity and Sustainability (mitigation/adaptation) – http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv10n10supp3.html
• Best Practices for Solidarity and Sustainability(business/governance) – http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv10n10supp4.html
• Fostering Gender Balance in Society (peace, food, health, energy) – http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv10n10supp5.html
• Fostering Gender Balance in Religion (religious traditions, spirituality) – http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv10n10supp6.html
Feedback and submissions are always welcome! Luis T. Gutiérrez Editor, Mother Pelican Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability http://www.pelicanweb.org, email the.pelican.web@gmail.com
4. Wednesday 29th October in Runnymede under the 2500 year old Ankerwycke Tree: during the New Putney Debates
5. Our associate Dennis Kucinich: The Real Reason We Are Bombing Syria – http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fMgEBuJAaFnwKm8kcZWQSrZuNIFFfbHG” \t “_blank
6. Marianne Griebler offers this marvelous essay, “A Requiem for Trees. – http://onbeing.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c4ce343e5cb83e8b16dffbf08&id=062fd3f507&e=4f397e7c74. She helps us see those magnificent beings right in front of us — and gives us a renewed sense of hope for the urban planting of America.
7. Hidden history of Europe’s states http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/hidden-history/the-hidden-history-of-europe.html
8. The recording of Sept. 18th DEBATE ON ECONOMIC GROWTH with Andy Haldane and Dr Andrew Lilico is now up on this website: http://www.stpaulsinstitute.org.uk/videos/2014/sep/17/should-economic-growth-be-the-primary-goal-of-economi
9. A Big Heart Open to God Who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio? ‘I am a sinner.’
It was one year ago today that Thinking Faith, together with our colleagues at several other Jesuit journals around the world, published an exclusive interview with Pope Francis. Why not revisit it to read his thoughts on the Church, the Jesuits … and himself?! – http://thinkingfaith.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=5055c71e9666566ae02088a4a&id=54dc8784ee&e=4913b70d20
– Read more: http://thinkingfaith.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=5055c71e9666566ae02088a4a&id=985d87b9d2&e=4913b70d20
10. Radical UK federalism – https://www.facebook.com/ukfed
10. How critical Thinking took up the challenge http://freecriticalthinking.org/daily-pickings/1106-one-defeat-doesn-t-lose-a-war
WEEKLY REMINDER:…….
Our STRATEGY is to seek ways to communicate the quintessential significance of :
– LAND: The economic rent of all nature provided resources to be the source of public revenue – thus undermining the false rentier economy :
– MONEY: The currency of society is to be issued on behalf of the people of that society interest free [given agreed costs] as a trust based public utility – ending commercial profiteering from a badly needed public trust utility:
– A BASIC MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD for all. A welfare security provision in the form of a living income is to be sourced for every citizen as of right—unconditionally. This replaces the costly current means-testing bureaucratic arm of the state :
– CORPORATE PERSONHOOD – challenging this dangerous legal fiction.
Our TACTICS are outlined in these basic papers on Global Table engagements and fundamentals, which you all are invited to update or improve…………
– Initiatives with which associates engage – http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/?page_id=44
– Fundamentals of a sane economy – http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/?page_id=376
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